MEDICAL BALL

Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 131, 27 February 1937, Page 6

MEDICAL BALL

Mr. and Mrs. T. D. M. Stout

“At Home”

Nothing could have been more delightful than the manner in which the social activities connected with the B.M.A, Conference were brought to a close last night, when the president. Mr. T. D. M. Stout, and Mrs. Stout invited medical men, their wives and a number of other friends to St. Francis Hall to tin “At Home” which took the form of a ball, with dancing from 9 o’clock in the gayest and most congenial of surroundings. Although it was very unpleasant out-of-doors, everyone forgot the weather immediately upon entering the hall, where spectacular decorations and numerous lovely frocks, together with the friendly, informal spirit that pervaded the whole evening, made the at- 1 mosphere a delightfully pleasant one.’ The fact that, the season ,for dancing is onl,y just, beginning made this everpopular form of enjoyment doubly appreciated, and the programmes which were handed to the guests on arrival | were filled in the shortest possible space of time. Bunting of every colour was hung round the walls of the hall and over the gallery, and rows of twinkling

coloured lights, together with huge btlhches of balloons suspended from the chandeliers, completed a really carnival effect. Palms and greenery were used to bank the stage, where an excellent orchestra played all the latest dance tunes. Dwarf cypresses in green tubs lined the entrance foyer and the landing stage was filled with clumps of greenery and wattle. Downstairs, in the supper-room, there were vases of dahlias and gladioli ou the long buffet tables.

Mr. and Mrs. Stout their guests at the entrance to the hall. Mrs. Stout was wearing a frock of soft, misty blue crinkled chiffon, with a graduated cascade frill from neck to hem in front, and a sash at the back tying across the shoulders and falling in graceful drapery effect to the waist.

All the visiting delegates to the conference who were still in Wellington ’were present, including Sir Edmund Spriggs and Lady Spriggs, who was wearing a black lace frock with white flowers at the waist at the back. There were numbers of 'Wellington doctors and their wives among the guests also, with many other well-known people, including Mr. and Mrs. George Milne, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Levin, Mr. and Mrs. W. O. Pritchard, Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Tripe, Mr. and Mrs. W. Turnbull, Mr. and Mrs. lan Reid, Mr. and Mrs. Ken Guy, Mr. and Mrs. Bernard White, Misses Constance Morice. Rosamund Riddiford, Georgette Handyside, Shona Williams (Gisborne), Pam Paterson, Betty Reading, Annette Harcourt, Joyce Nathan, Patsy Ashbolt (who was making her debut, and wearing a magnolia satin frock and carrying a posy of cream roses), Joan and Jean Fenwick. Frances Harty, Valerie Robertson, Margot Peacock, Jean Sutherland, Juliet. Nathan, Mollie Peacock, Jan Sloman, Catherine Young, Alison Pearce; and Messrs. Bob Watson, Tony and John Roberts, Bryan Vickerman, Hugh Arthur, Godfrey Harcourt, Eru Gore, Tom Harty, Dan Riddiford. Maurice Shand. Guy Horne, Bryan Silk, Benson and Michael Nathan, George Davidson, Staveley Ellis, Tom Young, Colin Armstrong.